$364 DDR5 now $2,256 USD - costs more than my existing node

Shakib · January 2

I’ve got 4 × 48GB sticks remaining and won’t be able to add more nodes anytime soon.

Nekopara · January 2

screenshots for ants 🕵️

ShalaWorks · January 2

I remember not buying those DIMMs for $169, what a shame

zed · January 2

decommission nodes, sell ram, retire!

MikeA · January 3

It be how it do bro. Get on your knees and bow to our AI overlords and billion dollar companies hogging memory contracts for the next 5 years. Us peasants are well screwed.
Edit: Talk to ya when that same memory is not $364, is not $2256, but is $5000.

stxsh · January 3

@MikeA said:
It be how it do bro. Get on your knees and bow to our AI overlords and billion dollar companies hogging memory contracts for the next 5 years. Us peasants are well screwed.
Edit: Talk to ya when that same memory is not $364, is not $2256, but is $5000.

this is usually the type of thing that breeds innovation. let’s hope the overlords can help.

snowman11 · January 3

Sell ur ram

MikeA · January 3

@stxsh said:

@MikeA said:
It be how it do bro. Get on your knees and bow to our AI overlords and billion dollar companies hogging memory contracts for the next 5 years. Us peasants are well screwed.
Edit: Talk to ya when that same memory is not $364, is not $2256, but is $5000.

this is usually the type of thing that breeds innovation. let’s hope the overlords can help.

Grok generating AI images of girls in bikinis won't lower RAM pricing and help us. But I do hope Chinese manufacturers like CXMT start mass producing DDR5 soon to help lower prices for consumers!
Edit - I'm not against AI, I use AI dev tools nearly daily. But the big tech companies having memory contracts for many years and screwing consumers that want affordable memory is a problem. There are like, two or there DDR5 memory manufacturers in the world, and they're at capacity and under contract for years. We need more manufacturing, regardless of what country has it.

nikio · January 3

When I was building my last daily driver box, 12th Gen Intel was the hottest game in town and gave me the option of going DDR4 or DDR5. At the time I said "fuck it, I'll stick with DDR4, because DDR5 is expensive and new technology, let's wait for them to iron out all the bugs". Fast-forward 4 years, it's time for a new build, DDR5 has indeed matured, but it is more expensive than it used to be and intel CPUs are best not mentioned in polite company.

At least I am happy with the 128GB DDR4 I have in my home server and in also in my daily driver box.

fiberstate · January 3

Word on the street is RTX 5090's will be north of $5,000 here shortly.

yoursunny · January 3

@zed said:
decommission nodes, sell ram, retire!

Affected customers initiate chargebacks.

rpqu · January 3

@yoursunny said:

@zed said:
decommission nodes, sell ram, retire!

Affected customers initiate chargebacks.

@VeloxMedia moments

Shakib · January 3

@MikeA said:
It be how it do bro. Get on your knees and bow to our AI overlords and billion dollar companies hogging memory contracts for the next 5 years. Us peasants are well screwed.
Edit: Talk to ya when that same memory is not $364, is not $2256, but is $5000.

I have had so many plans for 2026, I am just sad now.

PureVoltage · January 3

@fiberstate said:
Word on the street is RTX 5090's will be north of $5,000 here shortly.

Yep give it another month or 2.

ralf · January 3

@MikeA said:
But I do hope Chinese manufacturers like CXMT start mass producing DDR5 soon to help lower prices for consumers!

Sooner or later, I suspect they'll probably choose (or be made to choose) to serve the domestic market first given the AI race is shaping up to be a big international power struggle.

ralf · January 3

@Shakib said:

@MikeA said:
It be how it do bro. Get on your knees and bow to our AI overlords and billion dollar companies hogging memory contracts for the next 5 years. Us peasants are well screwed.
Edit: Talk to ya when that same memory is not $364, is not $2256, but is $5000.

I have had so many plans for 2026, I am just sad now.

If you're making decent bank now and can have a comfortable lifestyle, it's OK to have a year or two without expansion. It's only if you think RAM prices will continue to stay this high for the long term that you need to just bite the bullet and pony up.

At the moment everyone is gearing up because they are starting to invest in AI capacity. I suspect there's going to be a fairly sudden drop off in demand when they've reached saturation in customer base and revenue stops growing, and companies realise how much capacity they already have and that it's "good enough" for their future development as well.

mans_xd · January 3

Soon GPU And CPU, the whole market are fucked

jenkki · January 3

The best investment if you've made it. The crypto is no longer relevant..

Neoon · January 3

the DRAMless shit SSD, BX500 1TB, is now 99€ used to be like 52€

emgh · January 3

@MikeA said: It be how it do bro. Get on your knees and bow to our AI overlords and billion dollar companies hogging memory contracts for the next 5 years.

hello im an ai overlord please proceed

Platonks · January 3

Still can't believe I bought 64GB DDR5 crucial RAM 1 year ago for 100€ instead of 130€ because the packaging was damaged and they could not sell it as new...
That same kit cost 800€ on crucial website like what??

BlaZe · January 3

damm son!

Zhenmue · January 3

we were in the process of building servers with 192gb ram... and have officialy stopped.. too sad

tentor · January 3

@emgh said:

@MikeA said: It be how it do bro. Get on your knees and bow to our AI overlords and billion dollar companies hogging memory contracts for the next 5 years.

hello im an ai overlord please proceed

You must be richer than @oloke

xvps · January 3

Sell swap as RAM.

@Calin can confirm it works perfectly.

Nobody will notice.

hyperblast · January 3

@Platonks said:
Still can't believe I bought 64GB DDR5 crucial RAM 1 year ago for 100€ instead of 130€ because the packaging was damaged and they could not sell it as new...
That same kit cost 800€ on crucial website like what??

show the website please.

 Important announcement
To the Crucial Community –

Micron has made the difficult decision to wind down the Crucial consumer business. Micron will ship Crucial consumer products through February 2026, with warranty and support continuing. Micron Crucial consumer products may continue to be available for purchase from distributors and resellers for some time.

For nearly three decades, Crucial has been more than a brand—it’s been a trusted companion for millions who build, upgrade, and create. With our deepest gratitude to passionate customers, dedicated partners, and the talented Micron team, Crucial became synonymous with innovation, quality, and reliability.

Thank you for 29 incredible years of trust, collaboration, and shared success. Crucial wouldn’t have been what it was without you.

OpaqueRegistrant · January 3

@stxsh said:

@MikeA said:
It be how it do bro. Get on your knees and bow to our AI overlords and billion dollar companies hogging memory contracts for the next 5 years. Us peasants are well screwed.
Edit: Talk to ya when that same memory is not $364, is not $2256, but is $5000.

this is usually the type of thing that breeds innovation. let’s hope the overlords can help.

It's not possible for competitors to enter these markets. You fork off from an existing company with a hundred billion dollar investment to build your own chip factories, or you build 1970s technology. 64 kilobits, anyone?

OpaqueRegistrant · January 3

@mans_xd said:
Soon GPU And CPU, the whole market are fucked

Soon the AI bubble pops, prices return to normal, the USA implodes and prices crater to the floor and nobody has a job but also your rent quadruples.

fiberstate · January 3

@OpaqueRegistrant said:

@mans_xd said:
Soon GPU And CPU, the whole market are fucked

Soon the AI bubble pops, prices return to normal, the USA implodes and prices crater to the floor and nobody has a job but also your rent quadruples.

Many AI players will likely go bust just in shear CAPEX to revenue. However, AI gets better with scale, therefore demand for power and scale will not diminish likely ever. Arguably, compute is the true currency of the future. We are still in the vacuum-tube era of the transistor, exploring how far brute force increases in clock cycles and linear algebra can take humanity.

OpaqueRegistrant · January 3

@fiberstate said:
Many AI players will likely go bust just in shear CAPEX to revenue. However, AI gets better with scale, therefore demand for power and scale will not diminish likely ever. Arguably, compute is the true currency of the future. We are still in the vacuum-tube era of the transistor, exploring how far brute force increases in clock cycles and linear algebra can take humanity.

You can't get to the moon by climbing taller and taller trees. The power of LLMs is not that they can do things well. The power is that they are good con men.

Platonks · January 3

@hyperblast said:

@Platonks said:
Still can't believe I bought 64GB DDR5 crucial RAM 1 year ago for 100€ instead of 130€ because the packaging was damaged and they could not sell it as new...
That same kit cost 800€ on crucial website like what??

show the website please.

It's on crucial.fr website (french), it reference resellers to buy from and the price. And they have the Recommanded price by the maker for the sale of the product (pdsf in french), that is around 800€ for this 4800mhz 64gb ddr5

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